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@NK_Ryzov As baseline horrific as the idea of just transplanting European nations to Mars is to me, these designs rule. I especially like the stylized lion in Lotharignia's flag is!

Well, it’s not really that they transplanted European nations to Mars, so much as a bunch of European nations set up colonies on Mars, gave them poetic self-referential names (except Norway, the weirdo), and formed a bizarro Martian EU.

After all, it’s not like Australia is just England transplanted to some Lovecraftian nightmare realm.
 
I proudly present a series of flags I've worked hard to complete.

Set in an alternate 1776, when Washington dies of disease shortly before the Battle of Trenton. This forces the Americans to hold on till spring, when they're moped up by the British, bringing the First American Revolution to an end. North America stays British.

This means France isn't financially strained by its intervention, and so the French Revolution and Napoleon's rise to power never occur (in this timeline, Napoleon becomes a minor military officer in Corsica). Italian never unifies and the Holy Roman Empire lasts until the late XIXth century before collapsing into a series of complex wars (the Germanic Wars). The various states fall into Austrian, Polish, French, Dutch and Prussian spheres of control.

The British and French still manage to go to war in the late 1820s. By this time, a lawyer from the backcountry named Andrew Jackson has risen to rally the American provinces and propel them to independence. However, the ideals of the Enlightenment perished after the leaders of the previous revolution were hung by the British. Rather, a deep sense of Anglophobic rage and the simple desire to break free from the chains of oppression start the flames of revolt. As the British and French duke it out, each province breaks free, starting with New York. By 1838, most provinces have gained their independence. Britain ends up winning the war against France after a revolution erupted in French territory. However, the victory is Pyrrhic: British has lost several of its North American possessions and is now in deep financial trouble. In Canada, French-speaking Quebec also seceded after being inspired by the ideals of the French revolution (TTL Quebec's territory stretches from Labrador to the Great Lakes area). The Maritime provinces, experiencing heavy French influence and feeling burdened by British taxation, declare independence around the late 1840s, receiving support from various American states. The island of Newfoundland followed suit, becoming the last British possession in the are to break free, doing so in 1851.

Britain's colony faces a paradigm shift, turning to Asia to recover financially and expand territorially. This leads to a quicker (and deadlier) campaign in India and faster incorporation of Australia and New Zealand into the British realm. Britain also goes to war against Spain around this time, acquiring Luzon and Guam in the 1860s. By now, Spain has experienced the degradation it lived through OTL following Napoleon's invasion. New Spain is transformed into several kingdoms under the Spanish crown, similar to OTL Commonwealth. OTL Mexico is now divided into the nations of Yucatan, Bajio, Nuevo Leon, Nueva Extremadura, Tejas and California, while Central and South America experience similar fates. Cuba lives through a violent slave revolution in 1874 which established the Republic of Cuba, while Puerto Rico follows suit in 1879. As Spain plunges deeper and deeper into turmoil, each state goes on to enjoy tons of self-determination, prosperity and peace. In an interesting twist of fate, Hispanic America becomes richer and more powerful than Anglo-Saxon America.

That's a general outline. Here are the flags (I'll provide context soon).
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Kingdom of Massachusetts

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Principality of Rhode Island

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Republic of Vermont

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Federation of the Maritimes

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State of Newfoundland

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Empire of New York

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Republic of Delaware

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Kingdom of Ohio

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Floridian Federal Republic

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Empire of Columbia

Hope you like it!
 
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Holy Nippon, the Empire of the Risen Son. From What Madness Is This? The Aura-and-Cross again appear as a trademark of Union satellites and regions, and the drop of Pinnacle Fluid shows the Nipponese people's past as the Lost Tribe of Israel.

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Holy Nippon, the Empire of the Risen Son. From What Madness Is This? The Aura-and-Cross again appear as a trademark of Union satellites and regions, and the drop of Pinnacle Fluid shows the Nipponese people's past as the Lost Tribe of Israel.

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Looks like something out of a timeline where the Christians weren't purged en-masse by the Shogunate, presumably an Otomo one. :3
 
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From WMIT: The banner of the Illuminist People's Party of Germania. The cog of industry symbolizes not just labor, but also the equal "round table" all citizens are welcome at. It also symbolizes the might of the people to build an enlightened future. The Owl of Minerva is the traditional symbol of the Illuminati since the First Order, as well as the All-Seeing Third Eye.
 
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Huh, you know what? That actually gave me some inspiration here! I've been trying to figure out a new Fascist Argentina design to replace my older one, and now I think I have one that I can actually tolerate as meeting my standards:

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Meet the new flag of the Argentine League, a fascist military junta that secretly has ties to the Nazi underground network ODESSA. The All-Seeing Eye within the red sun represents the regime's ever-present totalitarian surveillance of the populace, which the regime disguises as "the watchful eye of the benevolent guardianship of the state".

And since it's been a long while from my last big flag post here, I have a few other flags I've made a while ago to share as well:

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First up, two different versions of a National Synarchist Mexico flag; I can't remember exactly where I got the overall design inspiration from, but I made these two versions that swap out the red and green sections for each other because I couldn't decide which looked better. I'll let you guys decide which you prefer.

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The next flag is another Mexico flag, this one being for a Catholic Mexican state after a second Cristero War. By the way, both this flag and the Synarchist flags above were prompted by the Man the Guns DLC for Hearts of Iron 4: the Mexico Focus Tree has quite a few divergent paths that you can take, and results may vary depending on your choices. The flag designs for Mexico, however, like as usual for Paradox Studios, are quite terrible (the Mexican Soviet Republic flag, in particular, is literally just a red field with a gold-colored map of Mexico slapped on. Incidentally, that path is also the meme path where Trotsky can take over Mexico).

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Lastly, with yet another HoI4-inspired redesign, here's my rendition of the Communist flag for Portugal, or "Maximalist Portugal" as it's known in-game. My design is actually not that too far off from the in-game flag design, with me just adding a little bit more detail and colors to clean it up some; the original in-game flag just had the yellow circle with the clenched-fist slapped directly onto the green-red division, with the inner section of the circle being red also; I felt that this was a little unbalanced in favor of the red, so I added in the Portuguese blue as a balancing agent, along with a black outline for the yellow circle to soften the garish contrast of the yellow against the green and red, along with a white outline for the black one to further balance the contrast, plus a white dividing line to separate the green and red for the same purpose.



So that's it for tonight's flags! Sorry it's been a while since I last posted any, but I'm kinda sputtered out on new flags to design. I probably won't have any big mega-posts with tons of new flags to share in the future; if anything, they'll probably just be one-offs with just one particular flag or so. Still, until next time!
 
Working on flags for the territories of the Tharsis Commonwealth (America-On-Mars), and I’ll present all of them once I’m done, but I was really happy with this one and felt like sharing it.


This is the flag of the Territory of Valles Marineris. At 4,000 kilometers in length, 200 kilometers wide, and 7 kilometers deep, Valles Marineris (or “Valmar” as some call it) is one of the largest canyons in the Solar System, and an iconic region of the Red Planet.


The red-yellow-green-blue radiance on the flag (which I did by flipping the Arizona flag upside down) is meant to evoke the infrared MOLA images of the region taken in 1999, showing elevation with colors in descending order of warmth. The white thing above is the Mariner 9 probe, which is where Valles Marineris gets its name.

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Working on flags for the territories of the Tharsis Commonwealth (America-On-Mars), and I’ll present all of them once I’m done, but I was really happy with this one and felt like sharing it.


This is the flag of the Territory of Valles Marineris. At 4,000 kilometers in length, 200 kilometers wide, and 7 kilometers deep, Valles Marineris (or “Valmar” as some call it) is one of the largest canyons in the Solar System, and an iconic region of the Red Planet.


The red-yellow-green-blue radiance on the flag (which I did by flipping the Arizona flag upside down) is meant to evoke the infrared MOLA images of the region taken in 1999, showing elevation with colors in descending order of warmth. The white thing above is the Mariner 9 probe, which is where Valles Marineris gets its name.

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I love the symbolism, I like how it focuses on science rather than some ultra-American Martian ideology
 
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From my Soviet Victory flag serie.
People's republic of Benelux.

PRB was a federal republic formed by the former Belgium(split in Flandren and Wallonia), Luxemburg and Netherland.
Antwerpen was a important Soviet base to control northern Atlantic and when Soviet Union began to falter, was one of the most hot point of Europe.
The "massacre" of may 5th(the day the red army liberated Holland from nazis), to ask the retreat of Berlin pact forces spark a peaceful revolution that become more and more cokplex to manage for Moscow.
In 1991 the red fleet retreat from Antwerpen and in 1992 Belenelux leave Berlin pact.

From that day, altrought it was one of the most advanced ex-soviet republics, but it is plagued by France's vetero comunism in the south(aiming to call Wallonia secession) and a struggle between royalist forces(that want to return the kings and dukes) and the republican alliance ruling since '90s
 
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Italian Repubblic
From Soviet Victory TL

Italy never been occupied by Soviet forces and protected by British and American fleets(having been neutral) was one of the few countries with not communist goverment.
Unfortunately(for italians at least) the fascit government was inefficent and corrupt and Italy never become one of the industrial power as in our TL.

The Partito Fascista ruled with terror and fear(like stalinist communism in URSS) and in '60s the protests of young people and more liberal elements of society become a big burden for Mussolini, more older and more ineffective than always
When, he finally died in 1967, more than 80 years old, the party decided to step down if not to prevent communist terrorism and soviet invasion.

The brief democratic goverment lasted until 1974 when Junio Valerio Borghese and the Army instaurated a military dictatoship with aids from Japan and Usa.
Actually Italy is one of the less free state in Europe(pairing with France) with a Fiamma Tricolore Party ruled by military forces and high officers.
Still is a poor and weak country, that relies over Japanese and American fornitures and military contractors.
 
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